As Brian says, "Isn't
it a bit odd that we went from science to math to history but somehow missed
the class on how to live?"

We could always just
wring our hands and curse the educational system. But Brian has a better
solution. Why not just provide that missing piece? Why not create email messages
and cool YouTube dramatizations of the best philosophy and positive psychology
in the world for everyone to learn and use? He has done that. His work is
mind-blowingly thorough and easy to grasp.

In my wealth warrior
inner circle members listen as I interview a new dynamic hot thinker each month
on the subject of wealth and creativity... it costs a membership fee to be in
that group, so I don't share the webinars. Or at least I usually don't.

But this once, I am
going to. Because this one was so extraordinary and inspiring and game-changing
and life-changing for people in the group that they are sending it all
around the world and the internet ... so here it is for you: Loving
What You Do with Steve Chandler and Brian Johnson

....and here is a recent
message from Brian and En*Theos:

ENJOY| by Brian Johnson

"This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to
have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob wants to
live for nothing; we others, however, to whom life gave itself, we always think
about what we might best give in return... One should not wish to enjoy where
one does not give joy."

~ Friedrich Nietzsche from Thus Spoke Zarathustra

I absolutely love that.

Imagine a life in
which we seek to GIVE joy.

A life in which we
enter relationships to GIVE joy. A life in which we work to GIVE joy.

Can you even imagine
how much we would ENjoy that?!!? Stunning... To giving full expression to the
highest within us!!

March 05, 2013

What I
love about the lyric of Alanis is that it describes so well the third category of
experience identified by Nassim Nicholas Taleb as anti-fragile.

The
first two categories are 1) fragile and 2) resilient. When a box is marked "FRAGILE"
that means it breaks easily and is vulnerable to shocks.

The
second category, resilient (sometimes called robust), means that it can
withstand a shock. If you ship champagne glasses mark the box fragile.
If you ship a bowling ball you don't have to mark the box because it is resilient.

Most
people live their lives in the first two categories. And by most, I mean 99%
because they do not even know of a third possibility. That's why there is no word
for it.

That's
why Taleb had to invent the word antifragile.

For the
package bearing something antifragile would be marked "BENEFITS FROM
SHOCK."

A
candle is fragile to a strong wind. The wind blows the candle out. But a forest
fire benefits from a strong wind. It is not resilient to the wind, it
grows from it.

Most
people are either fragile or resilient to rejection...to hearing a NO. They
either get upset and depressed (fragile) or they learn to be okay with it...to
withstand it without being upset (resilient).

But
there is that 1% who have learned to benefit from a NO.

They learn
from it.

They
grow from it.

They
even welcome it. They are anti-fragile now, and they are powerful as a forest
fire.

Same is
true with divorce. Most people are only seeing the possibility of the first two
categories. They are either devastated and depressed over their break-up
(fragile to it), OR they have learned to "get through it," withstand
it and survive (resilient).

But
what if there were a third category?

And
what if we could learn to go there?

Allison Pescosolido

Allison
Pescosolido has created that third possibility for people "going
through" divorce.

She
calls it a reframe.

And
when you have done her intensive program, you are no longer merely resilient to
your divorce.

You are
stronger for it.

You
have reframed every aspect of it. You have used it now to improve dating skills,
improve your sense of freedom and maturity, and to strengthen your independence
and your capacity to apply your love to all of life.

In my
own world I work with a lot of coaches. I had a coaching prosperity school for
years. Today I have a very intensive three-day workshop that I put on with master
coach Rich Litvin that teaches coaches to move out of the first two categories into
the third. The next seminar is May 17 - 19 in Los Angeles....Marina del Rey,
actually. If you are a coach whose career, practice and prosperity have been
going from fragile to resilient, you can register here to begin your move to
antifragile in the category of prosperity: http://thatconfidenceguy.com/prosperous/.

Why
should we live our lives in the first two categories only? Either fragile and
vulnerable (a weak victim) or resilient, and withstanding things (a stoic
victim).

Why be
a candle in the wind, when the very real possibility is to grow like a forest
fire?

February 18, 2013

You don't have to make all the difficult decisions you think you have to make.

You can choose instead.

Choosing is bolder and cleaner.

You can do it in a nanosecond.

Decisions are messy and filled with second-guessing and
self-doubt.

So many of my coaching clients come to me inside the agony
of Trying to Decide something. They don't know how to decide. Would I please
decide for them?

Live for them? Love for them? Breathe for them?

My life changed completely when I learned to live at the
level of choice. It became fun.

Let me tell you where I first saw this most clearly.

I was giving a seminar and I had brought in my good friend, Lindsay Brady. People knew Lindsay because of
his great book on hypnotherapy.

Not only is Lindsay is a hypnotherapist but he is also a very profound philosopher who understands
the interplay between the brain and the
mind better than just about anyone in
the world.

As he was talking to my group, one of the younger people in the group raised his hand. Lindsay had just
done a really great presentation on how
the mind works and he had done a demonstration
and this young man raised his hand and said, "I am so confused; I don't
know what to do with my future. I have a
feeling that you could really help me. I really have a sense that you know how I can make my
decision. I don't know what to do. I
don't know how to decide. I've got this
opportunity and that…"

...and he explained a few options he had and a few places he could go career-wise and things he could
do, but he didn't know how to make the
right decision! He didn't know what to do.

At least that's what he was telling Lindsay at the time.

Remember there's a real red flag here--I don't know how to
decide, I don't know what to do, I don't
know who to call. Listen for those. Listen
for them in yourself. When you tell yourself "I don't know how to, I don't know what to, I don't know who to,
notice that you're not telling yourself
the truth and you are keeping yourself stuck.

So, this person tried to tell Lindsay that he didn't know
how to decide, he didn't know what to
do.

"What should I do?" he said.

Lindsay stared at him for a second and then he said, one
word.

He said "choose."

Now that was very profound because the room grew silent, and
the person who was asking Lindsay just
stared at him like a deer in the headlights and then he got a big smile on his face
because he could really see it-- That's it! That's what I haven't done!

What I've seen in my own life and in the lives of my
clients, is that people aren't
choosing and so they are stuck. They are wavering between not knowing what
to do and not knowing who to call and
not knowing how to do something.

And it's simply not choosing.

I was working with a very brilliant woman who had a
tremendous business and wonderful
employees and a great service she was presenting to the world. But the business
itself was losing a little money every month and she didn't know how or why and she hired
me to coach her and she said, "I know how to do what I do, but I don't
know how to run a business."

Fortunately I had received this distinction called choosing
by that time, so I was able to say,
"No that's not really true. It's not that you don't know how to run a business. You have not chosen to
run your business. That's all there is and by the way that's good news."

See it's not a way to shame someone--this is not a way to
shame someone into thinking, "Oh
look what I do, I trap myself, I keep myself stuck by lying to myself and pretending I'm impotent
and powerless."

That's not what this is about.

This is about freedom. This is about finding the freedom in
choosing. Because it's action instead of agony.

Even if you make the "wrong" choice, you are better
off because there's so much to learn
from that.

Then she said, "I have not chosen to acquire and use
the knowledge necessary to run my own business well. I've chosen not to. I've chosen out. I've opted out." And
when she saw that, she said "Oh,
yeah. You are right. I've never wanted to do that. I've always hoped someone else could do that
for me."

Well, that's a possibility… if you've found the right
person, but what she could now see was
there wasn't this lack of knowledge she thought she had, because that's where
people go wrong. They walk around and
they say to themselves, "I don't know how to do this, I don't know how to do that" and
it's infantile.

Nathaniel Branden, the great psychologist, once said,
"Suffering is the easiest thing human
beings do." It's the easiest place to go. Suffering. I am suffering from my lack of
knowledge. I'm really suffering. I don't
know what to do.

I get e-mails all the time saying, "I need you to coach
me. I don't know what to do. I need you
to coach me, I don't know how to get clients, I need you to coach me, I don't know how to succeed,
I don't know how to be happy, don't know
how to do this, I don't know how to make my business work," and that, by
the way, is never, ever true.

This person is simply not choosing something.

And if I do end up working with them, we move out of the I
don't know how, we move out of this false knowledge problem and we move
into the freedom and the power of
choosing.

When he was young and lost in career indecision Lindsay
Brady found his career by going through an entire Yellow Pages book and
circling the professions and services
that struck a chord with him.

When he got to the H's he saw "Hypnotherapy" and
being curious, he circled it. After
looking into it he learned self-hypnosis to cure himself of various fears and weak habits. He was so successful at that he
went to school and took up the profession
and never looked back.

Notice that there was no decision necessary, he just CHOSE!

He had also circled beekeeper and airplane pilot, and after
securing his profession as a hypnotherapist, he mastered those other two hobbies
as well. By choosing to.

I can coach you in this choosing stuff too. How much would
it cost you for that? For at least 20 hours of work with me? Ninety-nine
dollars if you do it this way:

CHOICES for a More Powerful YOU includes the
following downloadable mp3 audio programs by Steve Chandler:

Are You a DOER or a FEELER?We all have a choice to be a “Doer” or a “Feeler.” Steve shows how
the mind, body and spirit are intertwined and how we can move beyond feelings-inspired
resistance and build more DOING into our lives.

Choosing“I don’t know what to do” and “I don’t know how to do it” are common
complaint-themes in people’s lives. Transform the “I don’t know” lie by choosing.
Yes, it really is that simple. Learn how to use the power of choosing to move
out of stagnation and into action.

Expectation vs. AgreementCreating agreements works wonders. Up-vibe your personal and professional relationships
by learning to create agreements instead of expecting others to do things (and
then being disappointed when they don’t).

Information vs. TransformationBreak free from “information addiction” by applying, testing and
experimenting with what you’ve learned. Step out of your comfort zone and into
transformation. Steve shares his own experiences of transformation-based
learning.

Is It a Dream or a Project?Steve shows how we can get what we want by cultivating a mindset of choosing.
Move beyond wishing and dreaming and have your life’s adventure be one of choosing
and converting dreams into projects.

Purpose vs. PersonalityEverything looks frightening when you’re living from your personality
rather than from purpose. Make friends with purpose and take it with you
throughout the day. To live from purpose, wake up to what you’re up to and
practice it.

SERVING vs. PLEASING People People often confuse serving people with pleasing people. Steve shows how
the Owner mindset is serving and the Victim mindset is pleasing. This program
gives clarity on what serving is and does and how you can benefit from making
it a life practice.

TESTING vs. TRUSTINGTESTING vs. TRUSTING is a distinction which can truly strengthen your day!
The active path of testing and testing and testing throughout your day can
become your path to mastery of any activity you wish to master.

The How To vs. The Want ToComing from a place of “Want To” means the “How To” is never a problem,
because the best “How To” is to have more “Want To” than you’ve ever had
before.

The Owner / Victim ChoiceBased on the bestselling book, Reinventing Yourself. Owners have an awareness
of their own freedom of choice and they love to make and keep agreements. They
own their own spirit and energy and have a sense of personal responsibility and
self-control. Victims are victims of circumstance who navigate their days based
on their shifting feelings.

Who You Know vs. What You DoIt’s who you know – that’s how you succeed in life. Wrong! It’s really all
about what you do and how you serve. Put your creative energy into your work
first and foremost, rather than into networking and collecting “friends.”

Why Should I Reinvent Myself?Reinventing yourself can be a fun thing to do and people who get really
good at it can see that it serves them every time they do it. Embrace
reinventing yourself as a way of being and experience the fun and the joy that
it can bring you.

February 04, 2013

The
woman sounded angry when she asked me that. Or maybe I should say seemed angry,
since it was in an email, in response to a blog I wrote that mentioned I was
working on a book called Why Women Rule: The Rise of the Female Warrior.

I had
to think about that question. Who was I to write a book about women? My first
answer I typed to her, would not be the right answer because it contained an
accidental obscenity, so I didn't send it. I used the backspace button to
delete it. Besides, everybody says that obscene stuff these days in response to
the slightest provocation, and I don't want to be like everybody else just to
look trendy.

Who am
I to write about women? Well! I had a mother. Is that good enough? Well, maybe
not. Everyone has had a mother. So I'm not exactly an outlier there.

I have
two sisters. I have three daughters. I have a wife. I have women clients. My
favorite philosopher/spiritual advisor is Byron Katie, a woman. And I cheer for
Jennifer Lawrence every time she picks up her bow and arrow in The Hunger Games.

Besides,
I have always rejected the excessively tribal claims that only women can write
about women, only blacks can write about blacks, only dwarves can write about
dwarves, and on and on. If we have too much more of that tribal isolation no
one will be bonding with anyone else ever again. It will just be islands of
isolation and tribal rage.

Oh, I
forgot one of my best qualifications: my grandmother was a woman. She was a
hero of mine, and a role model. She never hated anyone. When she didn't like
someone she would always say they were "insignificant." Sometimes she
would say, "He's the most insignificant man I know of!"

My
grandmother was not tribal, either. If the boys (her sons and grandson) were in
her living room watching a football game, she would poke her head out from the
kitchen and ask, "Who's the underdog?" We would shout back who the
underdog was in the game, and she would say, "That's who I want to
win."

She was
always for the underdog. But it made no sense to her tribal boys.

"Who's
the underdog?" she would say, as we watched our Arizona Wildcats play New
Mexico.

"New
Mexico!" we would shout.

"Then
I hope New Mexico wins," she would say.

"Why?"
We couldn't understand it. "They're playing Arizona!"

"They're
the underdog, that's why."

"But
Grandma! You live in Arizona, your children and grandchildren went to the
University of Arizona."

"That
doesn't matter. I hope New Mexico wins."

Her
loyalty was always to the underdog. Ours was to our own exclusive tribe. Her
heart was bigger. Her ego was smaller. Her anger (the ultimate result of tribal
loyalty) was almost non-existent.

January 28, 2013

"If I can stop one
heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching,
or cool one pain, or help one fainting robin unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain."
~ Emily Dickinson

I've had the pleasure of
helping Jonathan Keyser edit his upcoming book on how he converted from a
self-centered, egotistical life of seeking business success, to a life of selfless
service.

The book inspired me to
search for a quote that best described Jonathan's heart and soul. That's the
quote you see up there from Emily Dickinson.

It sure doesn't look
like a quote that has anything to do with business.

Which is why it is
perfect, because Jonathan and his team of like-minded, service-obsessed commercial
real estate consultants do not do business in a normal way.

For example, let's take
a look at their operating principles that the team co-authored for itself. And
before you allow yourself to be pleasantly stunned by these, what's even more
impressive to me is how his team continuously imprints these by reading them
aloud at meetings and reporting back to each other about how they are being
lived out there in the real world:

1. We SERVE our clients, partners, and each other fully, selflessly
and completely and only involve ourselves in projects, activities and
conversations that can truly add value to another individual. We are known by one
word….SERVICE…and we live the statement: “It is not about me.”

2. We outwork our competition and win as a result. We work
relentlessly, tirelessly, and passionately towards our cause and do not allow
ourselves to be distracted, discouraged, or deterred from our mission by
ANYTHING, no matter how enticing it may appear.

3. We encourage bold action and are not afraid of making a mistake.
We never punish mistakes, but rather embrace them because to fear mistakes
makes a person timid, and keeps them out of bold, fearless, massive action
which is precisely where value is created.

4. We always do our best, and produce more than our clients request
or expect every single time. We provide the highest quality service, materials,
and deliverables to our clients and partners, and nothing is ever done
half-ass. Everything is done to the very best of our potential.

5. We expect to win every single time. Period. We do this because we
think and act as we truly are…the best in the business. No one delivers greater
service or quality representation than our team. We are the BEST and we honor
ourselves by being and doing our best.

6. We are one team, and each person plays an integral role. Together
we are more successful than we would be on our own, and we honor the importance
of everyone’s contribution. We each serve a critical team function, and no team
member is superior to another.

7. We give first, fully and exuberantly, knowing that if we focus on
giving and truly seeking opportunities to help others in real, tangible ways,
then we experience true joy and fulfillment in our own lives, and as a side
benefit, experience resounding success as well.

8. We always follow through with the commitments we make…always.
People can rely on us because we do what we say we will do, and when we see
that we cannot, we quickly clean it up. We are our word, and as a result, what
we speak into existence actually occurs for us.

9. We have fun with what we do, and with the members of the team.
This is a mission we are thrilled to be a part of, and we won’t take on a
client unless it will be fun for everyone. Nothing is worth sacrificing our
happiness over, and so we are lighthearted and playful in all we do.

10. We invest in our own self-improvement, always striving for greater
awareness of ourselves and our creator, for we know that as we align with our
true identity and remain focused on our purpose that the power within us will
manifest and create our highest potential.

11. We are a family, and always protect and serve each other. In love,
we hold each other accountable through authentic, honest, and kind discussion.
We are a tight knit brotherhood, and we love and care for each member of the
team at all times because they are family.

12. We are 100% coachable. We do not resist feedback, we are never
defensive, and we look deep within ourselves to find where feedback could be
even partially true. We find great value in the perspective of others and are
fully committed to the consensus of the team.

13. We are 100% present in all that we do. We commit all of our mental
energy to what we’re creating and do not allow ourselves to be distracted by
Anything (technology, other people, or our own thoughts). We are fully present,
and thus maximize every action and interaction.

14. We are disruptive, we embrace change, and we are forward thinking
in all that we do. We continuously explore and integrate new tools and
innovations, to maximize personal responsiveness & efficiency, and provide
best-in-class service to each and every client.

15. We are strong, healthy and fit. We value and respect our bodies
with regular exercise and proper nutrition, knowing it increases productivity,
confidence and well being. We care for ourselves, and as a result, discipline
flows into every aspect of our lives.

Jonathan Keyser has not
created some kind of blue sky ideal future scene for his team and him to live
toward. I know the man (he and I share the same transformational unstoppable
coach). Keyser's principles are a description of how he lives NOW. He's
performed this way for quite some time, in fact, and is now devoted to teaching
his team, and even beyond his team..... (when his book comes out) the entire
world the profitable results of living for service.

I received a quote from
Brian Johnson this week that made me think of Jonathan and the company they
call Keyser:

“A path is only a path, and there is no
affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart
tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many
times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does
this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no
use.”~ Carlos Castaneda

The Business Jounal had
a great little article on Keyser that you will want to read, here.

January 14, 2013

"We're not looking for the correct method, we're looking for the incorrect method."

~ Keith Richards

I found this Keith
quote in Seth Godin's wonderful new book, The Icarus Deception.

His quote is a
great refresher for anyone attempting to create anything (a service, a product,
a business, a life). Creativity thrives when
it is fearlessly unaware of whether I am doing it right or not.... creativity
and quality-of-product thrive when they have a lot of heart and very little
head.

That was Nassim
Taleb's point about being willing to make a mess of things in the name of
making something that will be timeless and popular and sell like crazy... like
the Bible (which is disorganized to say the least) or any of the great books
that follow no formula or outline or ANYTHING bureacratic or thought-out-in-advance
or planned carefully.

Kathy and I once
went to a talk given by Lee Child in a little bookstore in Scottsdale. He is the
author of the wonderful, colorful, bestselling
Jack Reacher series of books. He said he never plots or outlines his stories.
He never knows from one page to the next what's going to happen in the book. He
just wakes up and pours his heart into it. A controlled explosion.

Taleb compares the
messy beauty of an emerald forest with the carefully organized-and-planned
freeway system in L.A.

One is beautiful
and timelessly alluring and the other is a repulsive hell on earth. Messy wins
again. Because organic has heart. Synthetic
loses again.

No one wants to
read your book if it's organized like a
textbook or business book. No one wants to feel that fear that was in you when
you put it together, editing even before you wrote it. Trying to use the brake
pedal to drive with.

Most people I
coach try to "create" that way. With one foot on the brake and the
other foot amputated by a premature quest for acceptance.

It's the classic
HOW TO taking all the steam out of the WANT TO. I created an audio program that
addresses that issue....why be modest...solves that issue. It's a mess of a
program. No script. Clearly ad-libbed. You probably think I am going to now try
to sell it to you.

That would be the
correct thing to do, because all the marketing gurus tell you how to sell and grow
rich. I am just going to give it to you, it's called The How To versus the Want
To. Email my business partner and audio publisher Maurice at reinventingyourself@gmail.com and he will
send it to you.

By the way, the
clients I coach do not use their brake pedal to drive with for very long. I help them see how ineffective it is.

Try it with your
car.

Then sit in your
car for an hour or two and ask yourself if you've been living your life this way.
With this abundance of caution.

I know I did that.
But only for about five decades. Then it hit me as I slowly pulled my foot off the
brake: I'm not getting anywhere this way.

January 04, 2013

My new book is in the
process of being written. It is called Why Women Rule: The Rise of the
Female Warrior.

Those of you inside the
wealth warrior movement will know why this book is being written. You may even start
to get an idea of whom the book is being written about. Our game-changing
webinar on Women and Prosperity with Carolyn Freyer-Jones started the idea.

You can listen to this
webinar even if you are not a member of the WW movement simply by emailing our
benevolent Director, the brilliant personal development scholar and book
publisher Maurice Bassett (find him at: reinventingyourself@gmail.com.)

If you are a woman you
will love this webinar and it will confirm your most optimistic hopes about
women and wealth. If you are a man, this webinar may wake you up a little bit
to what's happening all around you.

Doug writes: "Men
are creators and warriors in so many areas in life but it is an extraordinary man who lives from his heart and has
surrendered to the machismo archetype while still maintaining incredible power and intimacy."

Another clue is to be
found in the heart of Louisa May Alcott.

* * *

My daughter Stephanie gave me a quote in a
nice wooden frame as a Christmas present. She bought it while visiting the
home/museum of Louisa May Alcott in Boston this year. Alcott is most famous for
having written Little Women.

I told her I loved the
gift and the quote, and that I would be using it in the Wealth Warrior Movement
messages:

"Work is always my Salvation." ~ Louisa May Alcott

I love this quote
because it so honors and elevates work. In an age when I am constantly urged to
find balance and soft comfort and meditative states of peace and bliss it
heartens me to hear her bracing, courageous words.

Really, I do not want
balance in my life. I want what she has.

Stephanie then wrote
this to me:

You should look into
Louisa May Alcott's story. I believe she was a perfect example of a woman
warrior:

At age 15, troubled by the poverty that plagued her family, she
vowed: "I will do something by and by. Don’t care what, teach, sew,
act, write, anything to help the family; and I’ll be rich and famous and happy
before I die, see if I won’t!"

September 19, 2012

(Once, a few years ago,
I sent this quote to someone who was STUCK in passivity, career-wise, and this
quote alone completely changed his life):

"As a man's real
power grows;and his knowledge widens,
ever the way he can
follow grows narrower:until at last he chooses
nothing,but does only and wholly
what he must do."

*
* * *

One day it hit me that I
wanted to help people become self-reliant and create wealth for themselves and
their families. It wasn't exactly a choice. I had just finished Time Warrior
and was enjoying the response to that book, and the break between books.

A year passed and my
publisher was ready for a sequel. My original idea for the sequel was Catch
Fire, yet another book about motivating yourself. Then I asked a trusted
friend and mentor about what ought to be next. What do people care the most
about? What's even more vital than becoming a warrior around managing one's time?

"Money," my
friend said. "People want to know how to make money. That's even more
important to them."

It hit me like a
thunderbolt and it was beyond choice. It chose me. I whispered to
myself, "wealth warrior."

*
* * *

something for you from
Wealth Warrior:

This kind of "service" does not pass the giggle test

When I say the word "service," what
do you think of?

If you are leaning
toward warrior, then I know you are not thinking of "public service."

Often people think of
politicians who have been in the government for long periods of time—senators, congressmen,
people like that—as being somewhat heroic for spending their lives "in
public service."

We see tributes and very
expensive dinners featuring toasts to these politicians who have "given
their lives over to public service" as if it was a tremendous sacrifice on
their part.

This whole "public
service" idea has inflicted confusion upon the word "service" in
the worst possible way.

Because this senator
(Republican or Democrat, doesn't usually matter) sitting there being toasted
and roasted is someone who has lived a lifestyle of deal-making and good-old-boy
favor-trading while never having to pay for anything. He is being chauffeured
and flown around the world like the king of Brunai on government money.

Not his money.

He has a huge staff
running around doing work for him so even if he has to sit in a committee
hearing, you can see the staff around him buzzing like bees—a staff of people
who have done all the real preparation for that meeting.

So, where's the
"service" they are all talking about?

Not only does this
"public servant" live off other people's money and do no work of his
own, this same public beneficiary gets rich, and receives huge speaking fees.
When he comes into office, his net worth is x and when he leaves office it's 100
times x—how did that occur?

Service!

Really?

No. Some company he did
a political (financial) favor for is now going to have him come speak for
$50,000 at their big dinner.

When presidents come
into office without a lot of money and leave multi-millionaires, even though
their presidential salary was not all that big, we have to wonder about the
term "public service."

It's a mockery.

It's hilariously
mislabeled.

It hardly represents a
service to the public.

This is one of the
reasons it's sometimes hard with clients of mine to have them understand that
the source of all wealth is service.

Because they hear terms
like "public service" and "a life of service" about these
people that they know are not serving.

They know that these
people are actually being waited on hand and foot.

While performing
"public service" from the back of a limo.

It's a tremendous
disservice to so tarnish this glorious word.

Part of seeing the
source of wealth for you and for me is to clean that word up and give it a
fresh new understanding so that it really means something. It really means
helping someone else, assisting another person, and delivering actual value.

Politicians are not
public servants. We just all call them that because we've fallen asleep.

It's like the hotel
operator said to me this morning. This is your wake up call.

September 04, 2012

On October 6 thru 8 there will be a great LIVE event in Los
Angeles that Michael Neill (pictured above) and I are going to be speaking at
(along with two great speakers, Mandy Evans and Rich Litvin).... and it will be
rewarding to attend.

I dedicated my book Wealth Warrior to Michael Neill, and
one of the early pages reproduces a Facebook post he made awhile back that I
saved:

From Michael Neill:

Question of the Day, with thanks to Clarence Thomson:

What's missing from your life and how do you keep it out?

* * *

I'll say it a little louder: WHAT'S MISSING FROM YOUR LIFE AND HOW DO
YOU KEEP IT OUT?

I love to take these questions personally. Instead of pretending
that this is something I already know all about and I'm going to teach YOU
about.

Not credible. As a place to come from.

For most of my life I would ask this question a little differently:
What's missing from my life and who are the people responsible for keeping it
out? My parents who didn't teach me how to be a billionaire. My partners who weren't
appreciative. My government. My planet. My religion. That was me. That was me
in the corner, losing my religion and everything else. Including most of my marbles.

Because that's what the mind of an entitled victim does. It
becomes so open-minded, all the marbles are lost and only the insanity of
disappointment remains.

Michael Neill (www.supercoach.com) is great at changing all that
for people. Here he is in a youtube video clip about the big live event October
6-8:

My Personal Internal Commitment is my new book's
name WEALTH WARRIOR. I am the Napoleon Hill of the modern age. I create
wealth for other people with my coaching, training, audios and books. I am
a soldier of fortune, and a warrior of wealth. A spiritual mercenary. I
transform sales teams, fundraisers, small businesses and individuals in
personal coaching and consulting practices by teaching them 100 Ways to
Create Wealth (my previous book on this subject). I regularly draw strength
from Deuce Lutui and our mutual coach Steve Hardison and share that strength
with my clients and the world. WEALTH WARRIOR is now available and it IS the bestselling of all my books and it FLIPS the entitled mindset
of the financial victim to the mindset of an OWNER OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT.